After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over...

Oh I can respect your choice. It doesn't make you any less of a homophobe though.

That is one of the stupidest terms ever. Not agreeing with something does not make one afraid of it. I don't choose to have my young children subjected to abohrant behavior of any kind. If you choose differently for your children that is your right.

That is one of the stupidest terms ever. Not agreeing with something does not make one afraid of it. I don't choose to have my young children subjected to abohrant behavior of any kind. If you choose differently for your children that is your right.

This isn't about your rights as a parent. It's about the fact that you are frightened of what might happen if your kids are around kids that are different from you.

Still trying to figure out what it is that you think would happen. The kids that I grew up with that ended up coming out later in life didn't behave any differently. If anything they had it a lot harder because they were different, didn't know why, couldn't help it and ended up getting bullied.

No child should ever be bullied. We have a program that teaches that and requires students to prevent or report it. It's hard enough being a kid without that crap happening.

This isn't about your rights as a parent. It's about the fact that you are frightened of what might happen if your kids are around kids that are different from you.

His kids most likely won't exhibit the same bigotry that he has because eventually they will be exposed people different from them on TV, the internet and in real life away from home. He is just delaying the inevitable.

That is one of the stupidest terms ever. Not agreeing with something does not make one afraid of it. I don't choose to have my young children subjected to abohrant behavior of any kind. If you choose differently for your children that is your right.

Being gay is not behavior in itself and therefore cannot be abhorrent behavior.

I, for one, am pretty sure that you all are going to be able to change vailpass's mind on this issue. Just keep at it!

I think this is a generational and regional thing. Folks in older generations have little exposure to gay folks. I have close friends, coworkers and family who are gay. Some I knew before coming out, and in one instance a friend of mine told me first out of his college friends when he came out.

It's a lot easier to be a bigot when you don't know and can't relate to the people that you want to treat differently and make decorating jokes about.